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enThe Darling Dictator of the Dayhttp://wilsoncenter.org/article/the-darling-dictator-the-day
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Rwanda’s Paul Kagame is accustomed to accolades. On May 12, he received yet another honorary degree, this time from William Penn University in Oskaloosa, Iowa. Celebrating Kagame is in vogue because he is credited with leading a remarkable recovery from war and genocide in the heart of Africa.</p>
<p>There certainly have been achievements in Kagame’s Rwanda. Economic growth has been climbing (G.D.P. growth for 2011 was more than 8 percent) and private investment is a featured component of that growth (Costco and Starbucks now buy about a quarter of Rwanda’s premium coffee crop).</p></div></div></div>Wed, 30 May 2012 18:32:03 +0000lbooth23859 at http://wilsoncenter.orgMoving Targets: Youth Priorities and the Policy Response in War and Post-War Africahttp://wilsoncenter.org/publication/moving-targets-youth-priorities-and-the-policy-response-war-and-post-war-africa
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In war and post-war Africa, youth populations are colossal and most governments are weak. The elemental youthfulness of Africa’s war-affected has created a daunting yet virtually overlooked irony: that while youth are demographically dominant, many if not most consider themselves to be members of an outcast minority.</p></div></div></div>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:00:53 +0000dlangford23365 at http://wilsoncenter.orgStuck: Rwandan Youth and the Struggle for Adulthoodhttp://wilsoncenter.org/event/stuck-rwandan-youth-and-the-struggle-for-adulthood
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong>Stuck: Rwandan Youth and the Struggle for Adulthood</strong></p>
<p><em>Speakers</em></p>
<p><strong>Steve McDonald</strong>, Director of the Africa Program and the Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity, Wilson Center</p>
<p><strong>Robert E. Gribbin</strong>, former U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda</p>
<p><strong>Marc Sommers</strong>, author, <em>Stuck: Rwandan Youth and the Struggle for Adulthood</em></p>
<p><strong>Kathleen Kuehnast</strong>, Director, Gender and the Peacebuilding Center, United States Institute of Peace</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-event-location field-type-link-field field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Directions:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="http://www.wilsoncenter.org/directions">Directions to the Wilson Center</a></div></div></div>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:17:46 +0000dlangford22560 at http://wilsoncenter.orgYouth and Politics in Conflict Contextshttp://wilsoncenter.org/event/youth-and-politics-conflict-contexts
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="287" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLzM1iiQhVrdGAF1VZmY_k7hxZHnDsAuJm" width="510"></iframe></p></div></div></div>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:04:05 +0000admin16419 at http://wilsoncenter.org